New Berlin City (part 4 of 5)

HENRY M. PETERS, merchant tailor, was born at Demmin, Prussia in 1820 ; when 15 years old, he began the tailor's trade, which he followed there till September, 1839, after which he coo tinned it at Hildesheim, Hanover, Hamberg, Berlin and other places till March, 1851 ; he then sailed for America, and landed in New York April 19 following, and remained in the city till September, 1852, when he went to Savannah, Gra., for three months ; returning then to New York City, he continued his trade fifteen months, after which he went to Hartford, Conn., for a year ; he came to Wisconsin in 1855, and located at Mapleton, Waukesha Co., where he followed his trade till September, 1857, when he removed to Oconomowoc, and has since carried on the merchant tailoring business. He was married Nov. 13, 1864, to Miss Augusta Rabe, a native of Sassenhagen, Prussia, born Sept. 12, 1845, and came with her parents to Milwaukee, Wis., in June, 1856 ; their children are Mena, Henrietta, Augusta, Amanda, Henry, Frank, Otto and Edward. They are members of the Lutheran Church.

HIRAII PROSUS, farmer. Sec. 7 ; P. 0. Monterey: a native of Columbia Co., N. Y.,born in 1815 ; his parents, John and Ella (Carman) Prosus, were natives of New York, and both died when he was about 6 years old ; he was then taken to live with his grandparents, and in 1830 with them moved to Wayne Co., N. Y., where he spent his time at farming until 1844. He emigrated to Wisconsin the same year, and located on Sec. 27, town of Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., where he bought a claim of 160 acres, and made that his home till 1853 ; disposing of that farm at that time, he bought his present one of 160 acres on Sees. 6 and 7, where he his since resided. He was married in 1844, to Catharine, a daughter of Samuel and Ann (Longstreet) Harney, a native of Monmouth Co., N. J.; she removed to New York, with her parents, when young, where she was married ; their children are Ella, now the wife of Wesley Rhoda, at.Gloversville, N. Y. ; Anna also lives at Gloversville with her sister, Abbie at home; Martha, now Mrs. George Wilsey, of Oconomowoc ; Mary at home. Mr. Prosus' family is connected with the M.

EDWARD A. RADCLIFFE, teacher; was bom in Oconomowoc Oct. 10, 1848, and now the oldest native resident of the city. His father, William RadcliflFe, was born on the Isle of Man, and his mother, Betsey Tremain, was a native of New York. They emigrated to Wisconsin in 1846, and located in the village of Oconomowoc, where his father followed the blacksmith trade for a few years, then removed to his present farm on Sec. 17, where he now follows farming. Edward A., subject of this sketch, received his early education in the district schools, and in 1869 he entered Ripon College, where he pursued his studies for two terms, changing then in 1870 to the Whitewater State Normal where he afterward completed his studies. He taught his first school at Ixonia Center, JeflFerson Co., in the winter of 1869 and 1870; and in 1872 taught a term in Hamilton Co.. Iowa. Returning to Wisconsin in 1873, he has spent much of the time in this county. He taught the first grammar department of the Oconomowoc public school in 1877, and in 1878 and 1879 at Summit Center, and in 1879 and 1880 at the Brown Street School, spending his summers on the farm. He was correspondent for the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1878 and 1879. He was married Nov. 3, 1875, to Miss Mary, daughter of H. C. and Laura Carpenter, a native of Steuben Co., N. Y., and came with her parents to Wisconsin in 1866 ; their children are Laura and Freddie.

J. IV. REtir AN, M. D., physician and surgeon ; was born in County Cork, Ireland, in February 1847 ; he came with his parents to America in 1852, and located in the town of East Troy, Walworth Co., Wis. Five years later, he removed to Madison, Wis., where he was a student at the State University during the term of 1861 and part of 1863. He next began clerking in a drug store in that city, and later in that year, he enlisted in the 40th W. V. I., 100-day service ; he was detailed Steward of the regimental hospital, and served as such till the expiration of his term of enlistment. Returning then to Madison, he began the study of medicine in 1864 with Dr. Carpenter, and attended lectures at Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, in 1865 and 1866, and in 1868 he went from there to Long Island Hospital, ftom which institution he graduated in June 1868, passing his examination under the following Professors : Frank H. Hamilton, nf Surgery ; Austin Flint, M. D., Clinics and Medicines ; Austin Flint, Jr., Physiology and Microscopic Anatomy ; C. L. Ford, Anatomy ; Samuel G. Armor, on Materia Medica, Therapeutics ; Practice of Medicine and Pathology ; Luther Swift, Obsterics and diseases of Women and Children ; D. G. Eaton, on Chemistry and Toxicology ; William Gill Fillon, Surgical Anatomy ; Dewitt

C. Enos, Operative Surgery. He began the practice of medicine at Madison, Wis., in 1868, but, after a short time, went into the drug business there, which he continued till 1874, when he removed to Oconomowoc, and has since practiced his profession. The doctor has been a member of the State Medical Society since 1876. He was married Sept. 21, 1869, to Miss Marda N., daughter of Daniel Himeback, of East Troy, Walworth Co., Wis ; their children are Annie M. and Eugene D. The doctor and his family are members of the Catholic Church.

THOMAS SALTER, farmer. Sec. 34 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc. This pioneer of Oconomowoc was born at Ashburton, Devonshire, England, November 30, 1808. He spent the first twenty years of his life with his parents, William and Jennie (Davey) Salter, at Ashburton ; then removed to Devonshire, where he spent six years as a quarryman. Sailing thence to America in April, 1836, he landed at Quebec about the 1st of June. He camethen to Buifalo, N. Y., and, after a few day's stay there, went to Toledo, Ohio, where he found employ for six weeks ; then with an English friend came via Adrian, Mich., to Milwaukee, Wis., and spent a month in looking at this country ; then returned to Toledo for the winter. In June, 1837, he came again to Wisconsin and located on the northwest quarter of Sec. 34, being the second settler in the town of Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co. ; he made his claim, built his pioneer shanty, then a log house, which sufficed till 1846, when he built the first frame house in the town, where his present house now stands. He was married at Milwaukee, June 20, 1838, to Miss Mary, daughter of Samuel Nack, a native of Torquay, Devonshire, England; she having come from England and landed in Milwaukee a day or two before their marriage ; their children are Eliza, born May 25, 1840 ; the first child born in the town; William H., born Nov; 4, 1841; Susan S., born Aug. 26, 1843; Mary M., born in the first frame house in the town Jan. 9, 1847. Mr. Salter and family are members of the Episcopal Church.

HENRY SCHrXTIiER, farmer. Sec. 33 ; is a native of the city of Chicago, born in 1851, and was for a number of years a member of the Sohuttler Wagon Company. In 1877, he bought his present farm of 158 acres on Sec. 33, town of Oconomowoc, all of which lies within the city limits; he has devoted his time to stock-breeding and agriculture, making a specialty of Durham cattle and barley. He was married in 1875 to Mary Kenkel, a native of Chicago ; they have one child.

AUGUST F. SCHIMMELPFEXiyiG, farmer, Sees. 19 and 20; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in Prussia in 1843 ; he came to America with his parents, John and Louisa A. Schimmelpfennigi in the spring of 1855, and located in the town of Ixonia, Jefierson Co., Wis., where his mother died in the following fall ; he made his home with his father, in Ixonia, till the spring of 1863, when be went to Rockford, 111. ; worked at farming till 1864, and then enlisted in Co. M, 8th 111. C, and served eleven months with his regiment in the Army of the^Potomac ; he was mustered out at Washington, D. C, in 1865, when he returned to Rockford, and continued work a few months ; then went to Ogle and Mason Counties, where he continued till the spring of 1867, when he returned to Jefferson Co., Wis., where he spent the summer. He was married in the fall of 1867 to Johannah Huebner, a native of Prussia; They have now five children - Annie, Edward (deceased), William, Huldah, Lydia and Ida. He located on Sec. 17, town of Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., soon after marriage, and made that his home till 1875, when he removed to a farm on Sees. 19 and 20, where they now live.

JOSEPH SCOTT, foreman for Vilas & Co., in lumber-yard, was born in the town of Janesville. Rock Co., Wis., in 1849 ; his parents, Samuel and Maria Scott, emigrated from Scotland and located ona farm in his native town, where they died whenhewasonly3yearsold; he made that his home till 1863, when he removed to Janesville and began the carpenter and joiner's trade, and followed that line of business there till the spring of 1871 ; coming to Oconomowoc, he continued his trade for two years ; he was employed by G. Vilas & Co. in the spring of 1873, and has since been retained in his present position. Mr. Scott has been engineer of the fire company since its organization ; he was elected a member of the City Council from the Third Ward in the spring of 1880. He was married in November, 1871, to Miss Phebe L., daughter of Alexander and Laura Murrey, a native of Green Co., Wis., born in September, 1847 ; her parents were natives of Scotland, and emigrated to that county in 1845 ; their children are - George A. and Walter J. Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the Congregational Church; he is a member of the Temple of Honor.

CHARIiES B. SHELDON, farmer. Sec. 33; P. 0. Oconomowoc; the first pioneer of Oconomowoc; was born in the town of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in 1812; his father, a pioneer of that country, was born at Providence, R. I. ; he died about 1876 ; his mother, Nancy Bowen, was also a native of Providence, and died about 1860. Mr. Sheldon spent his life at farming in his native town till 1834, when he emigrated to Iowa, and there spent the winter of 1834-35; coming to Mineral Point, Wis., in the spring of 1835, he engaged in mining for two years, and, while there, learned something of the lands about Milwaukee and this region, which induced him to seek a location in these parts, coming via Janesville, Prairieville (now Waukesha), thence up the Indian trail to Oconomowoc, where he arrived as the first*settler April 27, 1837; he made his claim to 160 acres on the east half of Sec. 33, and built his rude pioneer shanty on the creek bank, which sufficed for a dwelling for about ten years ; he then built his present house on the north end of his farm, and Jias made that his home since. He was married in 1845 to Miss Luoinda, daughter of Augustus and Clarinda (Hedges) Cotton, a native of Attica, N. Y., who came with her parents to Oconomowoc in 1844; she died in 1857, leaving three children - Nancy C. (now at home), Albert (married, and now lives on the farm) and Anna M. (who died in 1879). His second marriage was in 1861, to Sarah Brown, nee Kix, a native of Canada, who came to Washington Co., Wis., with her parents, when a child; she had two children - Allie and Samuel Brown - by her former marriage ; they have two children - Lizzie and Charles B.

AMUND SIMONS, of the firm of Olson & Simons, house and sign painters, was born in Norway in 1833. At the age of 20 years, he began the life of a seaman, and in 1857 sailed for America, after which he sailed round Cape Horn to San Francisco and continued on the Atlantic, Pacific and the Great Lakes till 1866 ; he then located at Ooonomowoc, Wis., where he followed various kinds of business till 1873, when he began the painter's trade with J. L. Hastings ; a year later, he began work for Olson & Hasting, and in 1877 he formed a copartnership with Mr. Olson, in the present firm of which he is a member. He was married in 1866 to Mrs. Mary Olson, a native of Norway, but then a resident of Oconomowoo ; they are members of the Lutheran Church.

HOX. DAVID W. SMAlili, was born at Frankfort, Philadelphia County, Penn., December 18, 1827 ; his father was a farmer, and both parents were members of the Society of Friends; he was reared on his father's farm ; prior to his 16th year, he had received only a common-school education ; he then spent two years at the Moravian College, at Nazareth, and at the age of 18, he began to teach and read law ; in April, 1850, he was admitted to the bar at Doylestown, in his native State, and immediately started for Wisconsin, arriving at Oconomowoc in May of che same year ; part of the following two years he spent in surveying, as legal business was quite limited at that time. Mr. Small held some offices of minor importance soon after coming to Oconomowoc, and, after the first two years of his residence here, his law practice became sufficiently large to require his entire attention. In 1862, he was elected District Attorney for Waukesha County, and subsequently re-elected. He was chosen Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit in 1869, re-elected in 1875, and still holds the office. His wife was Miss Susannah Ely; they have three children, one son and two daughters.

CHESTER M. SMITH, was bom in the town of Champlain, Jefi'erson Co., N. Y., in 1819. He began the carpenter and joiner's trade with his father, when 14 or 15 years old, and continued there till 1845. Emigrating then to Wisconsin, he landed in Milwaukee on the 1st day of June, going thence to Eagle Prairie, Waukesha (then Milwaukee) County, where he built a house for Mr. W. W. Tredway, and in the following year he built a mill at what is now known as the Trout Pond, and located there. Removing to the village of Oconomowoc in 1850 with his effects, which consisted of a kit of carpenter tools, and $3, he continued his trade here till 1852. He was then appointed Deputy Sherifi' by Patrick Casey, and, after serving two years under him, was re-appointed by Charles Ellis to hold that position during another term. Having lost all he had in a steam-mill in 1854, in 1860 he gathered together the little he had accumulated during that time, a wagon, three horses and $100, and went to Colorado, where he engaged in the butcher trade ; was interested in a salt spring and various other kinds of business till July 1863 ; disposing then of his interest there, he returned to Ooonomowoc and engaged in the grain, stock and produce trade till 1869. Mr. Smith, like many other enterprising men, has fully realized the "ups and downs " of a business life, but has now retired with a reasonable reward for his energy. He has held the office of Justice of the Peace for fourteen years. School Clerk for six years. School Director for two terms, and Assessor for three terms. He was married in 1851 to Margaret J. White, a native of Ohio, who died at Oconomowoc Nov. 21, 1861, leaving one daughter, Jennie, now the wife of Wm. Collins, of Milwaukee ; she has one daughter, Maggie. He was married in January, 1873, to Mary Whipple, of Concord, Jefferson Co., Wis., a native of New York. Their chil)}ren are Charles M., Minnie and Kittie. Mrs. Whipple now lives with Mr. Smith, and is in her 80tb year.

D. B. SMITH, teacher; was born in the town of Waloott, Wavne Co., N. Y., March 3, 1836 ; he removed with his parents, in 1845, to Rochester, N. Y., whence, in the following year, they came to Milwaukee, Wis. ; locating in the city for a year, they then removed to Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co.,where he attended common school, and made that his home most of the time till 1860 ; he began teaching at Grranville, Milwaukee Co., in 1855, and continued there five years ; removing to the town of Porter, Rock Co., in 1860, he followed farming during the summers and teaching during the winters, at Brookfield Junction, Waukesha Co., till 1863, when he returned to Wauwatosa, and taught there till the summer of 1864; he enlisted in August, 1864, in Co. A, 43d, W. V. I., under Col. Cobb, was elected Sergeant, Was with the Army of the Cumberland, and was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., June 24, 1865 ; returning then to his father's home, in the town of Porter, Rook Co,, Wis., he spent the autumn of 1865 at the 5Iilton Academy, and the following winter in teaching at Dunkirk, Dane Co., and re-entered the Academy in the spring of 1866 for that term ; he spent eight months of the summer and autumn of 1866 teaching in the Town of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., and the following winter teaching in the village of Wauwatosa ; hs removed to Oconomowoc in the spring of 1867, and spent the summer at farming, and in the fall of that year was elected first assistant in the Oconomowoc Public Schools ; in 1868, he conducted the Oconomowoc Academy; in 1869, was elected Principal of the Public School of the city, and held that position till 1875 (except three months spent at Pewaukee); he next taught three terms at Merton, Waukesha Co., and was Superintendent of the city schools of Oconomowoc during that time. He taught during the winter of 1878-79 at Menomonee Falls, and in the spring of 1880, was elected to a position in the 12th District School, of Milwaukee, which position he now holds. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Eliza, daughter of W. B. and Emily Bradley, a native of the town of Menomonee, Waukesha Co., Wis., born in 1846; they have one daughter, Lizzie. Mr. Smith is a Royal Arch Mason. His father died March 24, 1873 ; his mother now lives with him. His family is connected with the Congregational Church.

()}EOR4]rE SIVYDDR, farmer. Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in Saxony, in July, 1827. His parents, Casper and Margaret Snyder, emigrated with their family to America, in 1840, and settled in the town of Genesee, Waukesha Co., Wis., his father dying there in about two months after their arrival, and left their mother with a family of eight children, of whom our subject was third. George, with an older brother, Anson, ran an extensive breaking team in the town of Merton, from 1845 to 1847, by which they earned money enough to build a barn on the homestead for their mother. In 1844 or 1845, they delivered the first saw-log at Monches. Mr. Snyder bought a claim to 120 acres of land in the Town of Hartford, Washington Co., Wis., and madesome improvements, but, in 1850, he, with a company of others, crossed the plains to California, and, after a perilous trip of four months and eleven days, they arrived at the mining district. He engaged in mining successfully for nearly two years, and then returned via the Nicaragua Kiver and New York City, to his home in Wisconsin, after an absence of twenty-six months. He was married, Jan. 6, 1853, to Miss Mary, daughter of Edward and Rose Coyle, a native of the town of Cranston, Providence Co., R. I., born 1830, and she came with her parents to the town of Genesee, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1847. Her father afterward died in the town of Pewaukee; her mother in Waukesha. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder settled on his farm in Washington Co.,Wis., and made that their home for twenty-one years ; Feb. 28, 1874, moved to their present farm of 240 acres, on Sec. 27, town of Oconomowoc, for which, he paid $15,000 cash in January previous. They have had ten children - Frances B. (deceased), Alexander, Mary A., George A., Adelia J. (deceased), Edward (deceased), Carlos A., Lewis J., John A. and Ernest C. The family is connected with St. Jerome's Catholic Church.

WARBEX SPAUIiDING (deceased) ; was a native of Putnam Co., N.Y. ; born in 1811. His mother dying when he was quite young at the age of 7, he was bound out to learn the tanner and courier's trade, which he afterwards continued at Patterson, N. Y., for a number of years. He was married, Jan. 4, 1835, to Mary V., daughter of Stephen and Phebe Field, a native of Putnam Co., N. Y., born Dec. 2, 1813. In 1836, the young couple settled at Bethel, Conn., and, in 1838, removed to Danbury, Conn., where he continued his trade a number of years, after which he engaged in various kinds of business till 1857; he then emigrated to Waukesha Co., Wis., and located on a farm of 149 acres, on Sec. 29, where he followed farming till his death, which occurred Dec. 16, 1870, leaving five children - Edward T., Frances 0. (now the wife of George Spence, and lives in Missouri), Willis H. (now in this town), Ferris A., who was married, in 1873, to Julia, daughter of Theophalus and Amelia Baldwin, a native of Ohio ; they have three children - Dollie, Arthur and Lillie, Mary E., now the wife of Charles Spence, and lives in town of Concord, Jefierson Co., Wis. Mr. Spaulding was a member of the Union Church, formerly a Presbyterian.

FAYETTE M. SPEAR, farmer, Sec. 5; P. 0. Town of Summit, within city limits of Oconomowoc; was born in Somerset Co., Maine, Feb. 22, 1828. His mother, Susan Merrill, died when he was about 2 years old; his father, James Spear, afterward married again, and in the autumn of 1847, came to Wisconsin, locating at Hustisford, Dodge Co., where he made his home till 1852 or 1853; then removed to Waushara Co., where he afterward died. F. M. made his home with his father in Maine till 1847, when they came to Wisconsin and left him there to attend school ; he came to Hustisford, Wis., and joined his father's family and remained there three or four months, and then went into the pineries on the Wisconsin River, and spent about eight years; returning to Hustisford in 1854, he clerked a year for a brother-in-law ; then engaged in the hardware trade, which he continued there for eight years. In December, 1863, he bought his present farm of 130 acres on Sec. 5, town of Summit, 85 acres of whichlies within the city limits of Oconomowoc. He was a member of the City Council from Second

WHiliETT SPJRAGrUE, carpenter and joiner; was born in Rensselaerville, Albany Co., N. Y., Aug. 27, 1817. He is the son of Stephen Sprague, a native of Long Island, and Jane Winnee, of the town of Rensselaer, Albany Co., N. Y., and of Holland Dutch descent. Mr. Sprague began the carpenter's trade when 16 years old, at Oak Hill, Greene Co., N. Y., and, after serving his apprenticeship of three years with his father-in-law, he continued the trade there till 1842. Nov. 19 of that year, he landed in Milwaukee as an emigrant to Wisconsin, in company with Mr. Howard ; they took teams for Menomonee Falls ; when they had gone as far as Wauwatosa, he concluded to return to Milwaukee and send his wife on to Menomonee with Mr. H. and his family. He found employ at building the first grist-mill in Milwaukee, and continued his trade there till 1850 ; coming then to Nashotah, he took charge of the building of the college (Mr. Douglass, the architect). He came to Oconomowoc in 1854, where he has since continued his trade ; he worked one year on the grist-mill here; in 1856, was appointed foreman by Martin & Rugee in building the Newhall House of Milwaukee, and continued with them two years after its completion ; returning to Oconomowoc, he was employed by the C, M. & St. Paul R. R. Co. for eight months, after which he returned to Milwaukee, and was employed as foreman for Wait & Greene for four years, and since that time has worked at his trade in Oconomowoc and vicinity. He was married, Oct. 23, 1837, to Elizabeth, a step-daughter of George and Mary (Brown) Bartlett. Mrs. B. now lives with them, and is 86 years old. Their children are Gravenor, deceased ; Mary, now the wife of A. Burr, and \i<rea at Holland, Wis. ; Harriet, now the wife of Bldred Pierce, and lives in Brown Co., 111.; Frances, now Mrs. John Hogarth, and lives at Toland's Prairie, Washington Co., Wis.; Elizabeth, now Mrs. John Gibbs, of Oconomowoc ; Ann A., deceased; George W., now in York, Neb.; Sarah M., deceased; Charles, of York, Neb.; Albert, at home; Edna, at home; James, at home. They attend the M. E. Church. Mr. S. is an Odd Fellow; also a Mason.

ISAAC C STRATTON, carpenter and joiner; was born in Washington Co., N. Y., in 1824, but when very young, his parents removed with him to Bennington Co., Vt., where his mother, Lydia Andrews, a native of Merrimack Co., N. H., died when he was 7 years old. His father, Samuel Stratton, kept him with him in New Hampshire for about two years after his mother's death, then sent him to live with a married sister in Erie Co., N. Y., which was afterward his home for t«n years. In 1843, with his brother Samuel Stratton, Jr., he came to Oconomowoc, Wis., where he worked at his trade with Mr. Charles Wilson for about two years; returning, in the spring of 1848, to Vermont, he came again, in the following year, to Oconomowoc, where he spent a year at his trade; he started, in the spring of 1850, on a trip through the East and South, visiting South Adams, Mass., New York City, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Moretta, Ohio, and Williamstown, Wood Co., West Virginia; thence he went to Brighton, Macoupin Co., 111., where he built two stores, and returned, in the fall of 1852, via St. Paul, to Oconomowoc, where he has since lived and followed his trade most of the time ; he worked on the first store built in Oconomowoc during his first stay here. He was married Jan. 1, 1856, to Miss Lydia A. Bingham, a native of Michigan, born in 1835 ; she was an orphan, and came to Oconomowoc with her aunt, Mrs. Reed; she died Jan. 28, 1868. Their children are Eugene B., born Nov. 1, 1856, and now lives in Minneapolis; Helen M., born Jan. 5, 1858, died Sept. 14, 1858; Emma J., born July 23, 1859, died Oct. 14, 1860; Nellie A., born May 5, 1861; Mary L, born Jan. 3, 1864; George I., born July 26, 1866.

CHARLES J. STROHIV, farmer. Sec. 26; P. 0. Oconomowoc; was born in Prince Ed' ward District, Hastings Co., Canada West, in 1830, and is the son of Daniel and Martha Strohn. In 1846, a boy of 16 summers, he left his father's home to try his fortune in the wilds of the Territory of Wisconsin. Coming alone to Waukesha County, he made a claim to 80 acres on Sec. 22, town of Oconomowoc; he at once b^gan to improve it, and, as he earned means, he enlarged his farm, and made that his home for about ten years, removing then to Sec. 20, he followed farming there for about eight years, and in 1865 bought his present farm of 220 acres on Sees. 26 and 35, where he has since lived. He was married in 1854 to Miss Mary, a daughter of James and Barbara Ray, of the town of Merton, but a native of Scotland; she died in February, 1856. His second marriage was Feb. 11, 1857, to Miss Maria, daughter of David and Elizabeth Lasher, a native of Columbia Co., N. Y., and came to Oconomowoc, Wis.,

THOMAS M. STUART was bom in Lincoln Co., Maine, Oct. 10, 1810 ; his father, Timothy Stuart, was born at Martha's Vineyard Aug. 27, 1770 ; his mother, Jedediah Pease, was also a native of Martha's Vineyard, born June 3, 1768. Soon after their marriage, which occurred about January 26, 1792, they removed to Lincoln Co., Me., where they located on a farm, and made that their home for many years; his mother died May 19, 1815; his father about 1836. Thomas M., our present subject, spent his time on the farm with parents till 8 years old, and then went to live with his grandfather at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where he remained till 1845. He was married there in February, 1833, to Miss Mary N., daughter of Daniel and Mary Norton Butler, a native of that place, born April 27, 1815. They came to 'Wisconsin in 1845, and located on a farm in the town of Lisbon, Waukesha Co., and in 1850 removed to the town of Fountain Prairie, Columbia Co., Wis. ; lived there four or five years ; thence they went to Beaver Dam, and kept a boarding house two years,but made that their home three and a half years ; then returned to Fountain Prairie, Columbia Co., and lived on the farm till 1870, when they came to Oconomowoc, where they have since resided; they have had five children - Permelia, born March 21, 1834, now Mrs. Babcock, and lives in the city of Oconomowoc ; Martha A., now the wife of Jacob Vanhorn, and lives in this city; Hannah H., born May 31, 1838, died Oct. 27, 1839 ; Sarah M., born July 26, 1846, died Oct. 9, 1847 ; Frank L., born May 5, 1850, now lives at Burlington, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart attend the M. B. Church.

CEPHAS Jj. STURTEVANT was born in the town of Verona, Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1822, and son of Cephas Sturtevant, a native of Vermont, and Elizabeth, daughter of James Lawrence, a lineal descendant of the Lawrence family in England, whose heirs have been advertised for. They removed, as early settlers, to Oneida Co., N. Y., and made that their home till they died ; his father April 1 1864; his mother about two years later. Mr. Sturtevant received an academic education at Verona Springs, N. Y., after which he followed teaching in Oneida Co. till 1853, when he removed to Rockford, 111., and continued that profession in Winnebago County till 1861 ; he then enlisted in the 4th Wis. Battery at Beloit, Wis., under Capt. John S. Vallee, and served with McClellan's army through the South till the close of the war, and was mustered out at Madison, Wis., in February, 1865 ; he then removed to Oconomowoc, Wis., where he has since lived. He began the furniture trade in 1867, and continued that till 1869, when he was appointed Deputy P. M. at Oconomowoc, under Gen. Starkweather, and held that position' till 1871; he was next ticket agent at this place for the C, M. & St. P. R. R. Co. from June, 1873, till Sept. 1878, since which time he has been engaged at painting and paper hanging. He was married July, 1845, to Miss Rachel A., daughter of John and Anna Allen Yorke, a native of Otsego Co., N. Y. ; their children are : Melora R., the late wife of William Spear, of Liscomb, Marshall Co., Iowa, now deceased ; Detta C, now the wife of L. L. Disbro, and lives in Milwaukee ; L. Luella at home. Mr. S. and family attend the Congregational Church. He is a member of the L 0. 0. F. and T. of H.

STEPHEN TAYLOR was bom in the town of Lisbon, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in March, 1828 ; his mother dying when he was quite young, at the age of 9 years he began the life of a sailor as cabin boy, and went as such on difi'erent vessels on the lakes, till 14 years old ; he then worked at farming in the town of Herman, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., for five years ; after which he followed the molder's trade at Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., for four years ; then removed to Bufi'alo, and there continued one summer; he next -began farming and teaming, and in 1851 emigrated to McHenry Co., 111., where he farmed till 1853, whence he came to the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., Wis., and continued farming a year; removing to Oconomowoc in 1854, he followed various vocations till 1860, when he purchased an ox team and began teaming. The oxen served him faithfully till he bought a span of horses and began a regular draying business. He was married in August, 1852, to Miss Almira, daughter of Job and Henrietta Brown Warner, a native of Erie Co., Penn., born in 1828; her mother died when she was quite young; in 1837 she removed to Chautauqua Co., N. Y., whence, in 1841, she came to Kenosha Co., Wis. They had six children, one son and five daughters, all of whom died when young. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the M. E. Church.

DEIVJJIS R. THOMPSON, Deputy Postmaster; was born in the town of Hampton, Washington Co., N. Y., in 1820 ; his father, Bela Thompson, was born at Brookfield, Mass. ; his mother, Deadamia Kellogg, a daughter of Judge Jason Kellog, was born in the town of Hampden, Washington Co. N. Y. ; Dennis R. with his parents moved to Genesee Co. N. Y., in 1835, and a few years later to

Wyoming County, where they afterward died ; he came to Wisconsin in 1846, and located in the town of Lagrange, Walworth Co., where he followed farming during the summers and teaching in the winters for several years ; he was also School Commissioner and Town Superintendent while there, except the first year; removing in 1852 to Waterville, Waukesha Co., he engaged in teaching there till 1854, when he came to Oconomowoc and became interested in the commission business for a few years ; he was appointed deputy sheriff in 1858 by C. W. Bennett, and was reappointed in 1860 by James Clark; in 1862, he received the appointment of Deputy Provost Marshal, from. J. H. Tillapaugh, and held that during Mr. Tillapaugh's term of office, and also for two years under Capt. J. M. Beam ; in September, 1864 he was appointed to fill vacancy in the offide of the County Superintendent of Schools of Waukesha Co., caused by the resignation of A. D. Hendrickson, and in December, 1865, he was appointed Postmaster at Oconomowoc by the Postmaster General, A. W. Kandall, and remained in that position till March, 1869; he next engaged in the grocery trade till 1876, when he was appointed Deputy Postmaster, by Col. W. Parks, which position he now holds ; -he has also held several local offices, among them Town Treasurer ; Town Clerk Justice of the Peace ; and Assessor. He was married in 1844 to Miss Maria H., daughter of the Rev. Charles Knight, a Methodist minister of Newstead, N. Y ; her parents came to Wisconsin about 1844 ; their children are as follows : Arthur Dewitt, who died at Oconomowoc in 1858, aged 15 years; Albert B., who died at Oconomowoc in December, 1874, at the age of 28 years ; he was a soldier in the 28th W. V. I., for three years ; Ernest D. R., now a practicing attorney in Oconomowoc ; Carrie L. Mr. Thompson and family are members of the Congregational church ; he has been a Mason for 25 years.

WIJLIilAM THOMPSON, grain dealer; was born in the town of Attica, Wyoming Co.> N. Y., in 1826. His parents, William and Eunice (Nelson) Thompson, were natives of Massachusetts , but removed to Wyoming County, and bought a farm on what was then known as the Holland purchase, where his father made his home for more than sixty years, and afterward came to Oconomowdo ; he died in Jackson Co., Wis., Dec. 15, 1879, at the age of 91 years and 10 days ; his mother died in Wyoming (3o. N. Y., in 1841, leaving four sons and two daughters, all of whom came to Wisconsin. Mr. Thompson, our present subject, made his home with his father on the farm till 18 years old ; then in 1844 emigrated to Wisconsin and located at Oconomowoc, where he engaged at saw-milling, farming, coopering, etc., for a year, and from 1845 to 1860 he followed carpentering and building, being connected with the erection of many of the older buildings of this city ; he began dealing in grain in 1860, and has since followed that business, except two years spent at farming in Winnebago County. Mr. Thompson was the first Chairman of the village Board of Oconomowoc, and was afterward a member of the Board ; he was Chairman of the Town and Village Board and by virtue of his office a member of the County Board; he was a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from his district of Waukesha County in 1868. He was mirried in 1848, to Miss Martha, daughter of Caleb and Ann Scovil, a native of Connecticut, and came with her parents to Oconomowoc in 1845; her father died in Winnebago Co., Wis., in Nov. 1871 ; her mother now lives with them. Their children are: Franklin, now in York, York Co. Neb.; Ada, now the wife of Charles Wadsworth, and lives in Washington Co. Neb. ; Hellen, at home ; Lina, at home ; Edward, at home. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the M. E. Church.

CHARLES THOMPSON, farmer. Sec. 30 and 31 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc; was born in the town of Attica, Wyoming Co., N. Y., May 18, 1824 ; was the son of Willard and Eunice Thompson, with whom he lived, and worked at farming till 1844 ; in May of that year came to Oconomowoc, Wis., and made a claim, and some improvements on it, in the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., but settled in the village of Oconomowoc, where he was the first butcher, and followed the business from the spring of 1846 till 1855, when he went into the produce and general traffic business; in December, 1856, he removed to his present farm of 130 acres, he also has 44 acres in the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co. He was married in October, 1856, to Elizabeth E., daughter of Budd and Mary Parsons, a native of Maine, who came to Oconomowoc in 1849 with her parents; she died Oct. 3, 1877, leaving two children, Charles H., and Mary E. Thompson.

. COPELAND TOWNSEND, deceased, Oconomowoc. The subject of this sketch was born at Attica, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1825 ; he was one of a large family of ten children, receiving as liberal an education as the time of his early days offered ; his father, Isaac Townsend, a lineal descendant of the three brothers by that name, who came over in the Mayflower, was a native of Norridgewock, Me., and was a man of great energy, enterprise and business ability ; he later removed to Attica, N. Y., where he made extensive purchases at the " Holland land sale," and afterward made that his home, till his death, at the age of 53 years; his mother, Clarissa Copeland, was also a native of Norridgewock, but died in Wyoming Co., N. Y. In 1849 Mr. Townsend was joined in marriage to Miss S. Eliza Alvord, and the young couple ioimediately removed to Wisconsin in search of a home and fortune in the then Far West ; he came to Beloit and engaged in the mercantile business for one year; they then went to Neenah, at that time a small settlement ; he built and commanded as captain the first steamboat that ever parted the placid waters of Lake Winnebago, called the "Van Ness Barlow;" this enterprise proved too far in advance of the necessities of the day, and he lost all his investment, the earnings of a number of years' hard labor ; sharing in the excitement of the gold discoveries of California, he then went across the plains to the Golden State, and engaged in the lumber trade, which proved largely remunerative, but afterward invested in numerous unfortunate speculations and lost all ; next he established in Denver, Colo., in the mercantile business, and later again in San Francisco, and in a great measure regained his lost fortune ; during these and the two or three succeeding years he traveled largely through the British Possessions, Southern and Central America, returning to make his home with his family in Oconomowoc, afterward removing to Fond du Lac. In 1861 he applied to President Lincpln, with strong recommendations, and received the appointment as U. S. Marshal for Colorado Territory ; while there he built the first prison erected in the Territory ; the issues of the war brought on difiioulty to the Federal offices, and Mr. Townsend shared with others in having charges preferred against him at the department in Washington ; he went at once to Washington aud demanded an investigation,, and the final outcome was that President Lincoln, who became so strongly attached to him that he tendered him the choice of commission for a number of vacancies in the civil service, among them, paymaster of the Navy, position of Auditor in the Treasury Department, or as Indian Agent of Idaho Territory; the latter appointment he accepted in 1863, serving two years ; after resigning this Federal position he engaged in business in San Francisco for the third time, in which venture he was very successful; in 1868 he again took up his residence in Oconomowoc, but soon after engaged as a traveling salesman for a New York firm, at a liberal salary. Mr. Townsend's extensive travels and varied experience, led him to believe that Oconomowoc, with her great picturesque beauty and natural advantages, was destined to become a resort for tourists ; so thoroughly was he impressed with this idea, that he resolved to invest his accumulated means in a hotel for this purpose solely ; the venture was a risky one, but with his characteristic enterprise he staked his all upon his well-grounded opinion that success would crown his efforts; in February, 1870. he began building the Townsend House, the first hotel in the State exclusively for tourists ; by the following June the hotel was complete, furnished and opened to the reception of guests. Mr. Townsend is surely the originator of the summer resort business of the West ; to him more than to any other individual is due the credit of making Oconomowoc her reputation as a resort ; four successful seasons followed, and the Townsend House was found too limited in accommodation ; in 1874 the hotel was doubled in size, and the two disastrous seasons which followed; found the proprietor almost hopelessly involved in debt. As a writer Mr. Townsend was clear and concise, and his descriptions of some of his travels through the West are almost " word paintiners ; " his articles appeared in the Badger, to which he was quite a regular contributor, over the signature of " Tragic ; " his close observation, extensive travels and great descriptive ability gave him much power as a lecturer, and in his travels as a business man he was often called upon to give public lectures on his travels and adventures among the Mormons in tBe great Salt Lake Valley, which were " very spicy, entertaining and instructive." Copeland Townsend was a man of strong mind and had decided opinions upon all social and political questions ; he possessed indomitable will power, and had the courage to carry it out ; his travels and profession as a hotel keeper made him a large acquaintance, and his eccentricities doubtless made him some enemies - rare indeed are the men who have none. He was an enterprising and public-spirited citizen ; he was a leader rather than a follower of opinion ; as a conversationalist few men could be more entertaining or agreeable as a companion ; in his death Oconomowoc loses a good citizen, and his family a beloved and respected father. Mr. Townsend leaves a widow and three children - two sons, Eldridge G. and Copeland, and a daughter, Clara, now Mrs. Dr. Dorion, of St. Paul ; they had lost a daughter. Love, who died Sept. 6, 1874, at the age of 8 years. Mr. Townsend was a Swendenborgien in his religious opinions, and was of strictly religious inclinations.

GEORGE VIIiAS, lumber merchant; was born at Oswego, Oswego Co., N. Y., in 1830, and when 2 or 3 years old, his parents removed with him to Cayuga Co.; his mother, Betsey Dickerson, a native of Vermont,'died when he was quite young; his father, Nathaniel Vilas, was a native of New Hampshire, and removed to York State in an early day ; he was a tanner by trade and followed that line of business in Oswego and Cayuga Counties till ] 850 ; emigrating then to Wisconsin, they located in the town of Caladonia, Racine Co. Our present subject worked at the tanner's trade with his father, in Cayuga Co., N. Y., and emigrated with him to Wisconsin in 1850 ; he engaged in saw-milling and lumbering for five years, in the town of Caledonia, Racine Co.; removing to Fulton, Rock Co., in 1855, he engaged in the grocery trade for two years, then removed to DiJavan, Walworth Co., and engaged in a general mercantile trade till 1863; he then removed to Pardeeville, Columbia Co., and engaged in milling and grain dealing till 1869, when he came to Oconomowoc, and has since been dealing in lumber. He was married at Pardeeville, in 1860 to Miss Jane L., daughter of John and Eunice Pardee, a sister of John S. Pardee, the founder of the village; she was born in Ohio, but came with her parents as early settlers at Pardeeville. Mr. and Mrs. Vilas have two daughters - Mary V. and Helen M., now students at the Normal school of White Water. The family are members of the Episcopal Church.

CHARLES VRQMAW, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Monterey; son of Josiah and Susan Vroman; was born in Bradford Co., Penn., in 1826, and came to,Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1849, and located at Monterey, town of Oconomowoc, where he has since resided on Sec. 9 ; his parents came in the following year; he now owns a farm of 90 acres on that section. He was married in Pennsylvania, in 1845, to Hannah M., daughter of George and Eliza Decker, a native of Walton, Delaware Co., Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Vroman are members of the M. E. Church.

STEPHEN VROMAIV, farmer. Sect. 9 ; P. 0. Monterey; was born in Schoharie Co., N. Y., in Nov, 1801; when 19 years old he removed to Bradford Co., Penn., where he joined his parents, Josiah B. and Susan Vroman, who had removed to that county a few years before that time ; here he spent his time at farming till 1850, when, with the family, he emigrated to Wisconsin and located at Monterey, Waukesha Co. He engaged in hotel-keeping and followed that line of business most of the time till 1875, since which time he has devoted his attention to agriculture. He was married in Pennsylvania May 20, 1830,

Jacob, now in Adams Co., Wis ; Ezra, now proprietor of the Exchange Hotel of Monterey; Patience, now the wife of L. F. Eowell and lives in Lyon Co., Minn.

WILIilAlI K. WASHBIJRIV, was bom in the town of Attica, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Feb. 18, 1825 ; his father, Lewis Washburn, was a native of Taunton, Mass., and served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and afterward located in Genesee, now Wyoming Co., N. Y., where he married Betsey Kerne, a native of New York ; they raised a family of nine children, with whom they arrived as emigrants at Oconomowoc, Wis., May 12, 1843, and located on a farm in section 31 of this town, where Mr. Washburn died in 1857, and his wife in the fall of 1868. William K. spent two years on the farm with his father, and in 1845, with his brother C. D. M. Washburn and C. Wood, built a small boat, and left Oconomowoc, sailing down the Oconomowoc, Rock and Mississippi Rivers to St. Louis ; they were, perhaps the first to navigate the Oconomowoc River ; they returned via Indiana, where they spent one year, and reached their home again in October 1846. He was employed in the spring of 1850, to assist in the engineering and laying of the Plank Road from Milwaukee to Watertown, and in 1852, at its completion, he was placed in charge of the men and repairs of the road, and remained in that position till 1855, when he resigned, having gone into the grain trade in 1854, which he continued more or less of the time till 1868 ; since that time he has been engaged in laying out and grading streets, making lawns etc. ; he was Street Commissioner uf the city in 1875, '77 and '78. He was married in September, 1855, to Miss Mary G., daughter of William J. Brown, a native of New Hampshire, but came to the town of Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1853 ; their children are Nellie, William K. Jr., and Harry. Mr. Washburn's family are connected with the Episcopal Church.

J. A. WEIiCH. proprietor of livery stable; was born in Steuben Co., N. Y., in January, 1843, and in 1850 came with his parents to Wisconsin; he located on a farm in the town of Sugar Creek, Walworth Co., and made that his home till 1868, when he removed to Johnson, Mo., and followed farming till 1877 ; he then returned to Walworth County, and in January, 1878, formed a copartnership with A. Kinney in the livery business in this city; the, firm was disso.ved Sept. 4, 1879, Mr. Welch buying out Mr. Kinney at that time, and has since continued the business alone. He was married in 1861 to Miss Lucy A., daughter of Robert Bentley, of the town of La Fayette, Walworth Co., Wis. ; their children are Halbert B. and Royston. They attend the Congregational Church.

JACOB WELTIVER, carpenter and joiner; was born in Charles City Co., Va., in January, 1839. He began the carpenter and joiner's trade when 17 years of age, and after following that a short time, became a contractor and builder, which he continued for some time along the line from the Rappahannock to Richmond; in 1859 he went to Lexington, Mo., whence in 1861 he came to Oconomowoc, where he has since followed his trade has been connected with the erection of some of the most prominent buildings, among them the Townsend House, Captain Parker's, Dr. Henchal's, Shufeldt's residences, besides many others. He was appointed Deputy Sheriff by John Porter in 1878, and has held that position for two years. He was married at Lexington, Mo., in Oct. 1859, to Mi9s Emily, daughter of Mr. Meyer; they have one dauojhter, Emily; they lost a son (Herman) at Oshkosh in Nov. 1879, aged 18 years and 4 days. Mr. Weltner's family are connected with the M. E. Church. He has been connected with the I. 0. 0. P. for sixteen years, and is now Deputy Grand Master of that order in Waukesha Co. He is also Master of the A. 0. U. W. for this county.

WILLIAM WENT WORTH, retired; was born in the town of Peru, Berkshire Co. Mass., in 1815, and at the age of 4 years, with his parents, Sylvanus and Sally Wentworth, he removed, to the town of Lee, Oneida Co., N. Y., and locited on a farm, where his father died, at the age of 92 years; his mother the year before his father. Mr. Wentworth came to Milwaukee, 1836j and in the spring of 1837, located on a farm in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., where he lived till 1857 ; he then moved to Winnebago County for a short time, and then returned to the town of Summit, which was his home till 1865, when he removed to the village of Oconomowoc. He was married in Summit, Jan. 23, 1842, to Miss Olive, a daughter of William and Abagail Merickle, a native of the town of Lobo, Can., West ; born in 1824.

EDWARD WH ALEN, farmer. Sec. 7 ; P. 0. Monterey ; was born in County of Wexford, Ireland, March 18, 1818; he followed farming there until 1850, when he emigrated to America and located in Herkimer County, N. Y., whence, in October, 1853, he came to Oconomowoc and located where he now is, and owns 160 acres of land. He was married in Herkimer County, N. Y., in 1852, to Elizabeth, - daughter of James and Ann Sullivan, a native of County Lowth, who came to America, 1849. Their children are Ann, born October, 1853; Edward, born April 25, 1855; Thomas, born July 13, 1857; William, born Dec. 5, 1859, died Sept. 29, 1865. Mr. Whalen is a member of St. James' Catholic Church, Oconomowoc.

O. H. WILBUR, farmer. Sec. 34; P. 0. Oconomowoc; was born in the town of Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y., in 1811 ; when 18 years old he began the tanner and currier's trade, at Ft. Ann, Washington Co., and after working two and a half years at his trade there, he went to Troy, N. Y., where he finished his apprenticeship and continued his trade a year longer ; he went then to New Brunswick, N. J., and to Albany, N. Y., continuing his trade at the latter place two y^ars, and afterward returned to Ft. Ann, and later still he went to Granville, N. Y., where he run a tannery ayear ; he next moved to Hebron, N. Y., where he carried on the business fourteen years; he came to Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1854, and located at Okauchee, where he made his home till 1865, when he removed to his present home of 80 acres, on Sec. 34, town of Oconomowoc, having bought it the previous year. He was married at Albany, N. Y., in 1836, to Miss Abagail L., daughter of Loami Carter, a native of Lynn, Essex Co., Mass. ; she died at her home in Oconomowoc, in 1873 ; they had eight children, as follows : Clarrinda, deceased, Albert, Orrin , David, at home, two infant daughters (twins), deceased, Mary, deceased, Melvin, deceased. Mr. Wilbur was a mepiber of the Town Board one term ; Assessor of the town eight years.

OLE WILHELMSEN, Pastor of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Oconomowoc; was born in Norway, in 1844; he received his early education in the schools of his native parish; in 1862, he entered the Seminary of Stovd, Norway, where he continued his studies till 1864; he then began teaching there, and, in the spring of 1865, emigrated to America ; locating in Worth County, Iowa, he taught in the parish' schools of his church there, and in Winnebago County, till 1869 ; he then entered upon the study of language at Lutheran College, at Decorah, where he pursued his studies a year, then entered the 'Theological Seminary, and continued his studies for two years ; he came then to La Crosse, Wis., in the summer of 1872, and in June passed his examination before the Synod, and was ordained to the Holy Ministry ; he went then to Eureka, Greenwood Co., Kan., where he was Pastor of a church till 1875 ; returning then to Wisconsin, he located in the Town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., and has been Pastor of the Norwegian Lutheran Churches at B-ocl^ Rivqr, Ashippun, Stone Bank, and Oconomowoc. He was married in Winnebago Co., Iowa, in 1868, to Rachel, daughter of H. Halverson ; their children are Stina, Hartwick, Anna Valburg, Mary A.

VWILLIAM WILKE, mason; was born in Prussia in 1^23; he began the stone and brick mason trade in his native country in 1847, and followed it there till 1855, when he emigrated to America; stopping a short time at Milwaukee ; he went thence to Watertown, Wis., where he continued his trade till the autumn of 1856 ; he then came to Oconomowoc, where he has since resided and devoted his time to his trade. He was married in Berlin, Prussia, in 1852, to Augusta Flade, a native of that country; they have one daughter - Emma. Mr. and Mrs. Wilke are members of the Lutheran Church.

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GEORGE W. WIIiLIAMS, farmer, Sec. 28; P. 0. Oconomowoc; was born in the town of Russell, Hampden Co., Mass., in 1810 ; at the age of ten years, he, with his parents, Dudley and Mary Williams, removed to Portage County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming for a few years, and afterward began dealing in " mora multa oaulis," or silkworm-food, by which he lost all he had ; in May, 1841, he, with his wife and daughter, emigrated to Wisconsin, and, the 19th day of that month, landed at Oconomowoc, where he traded his horse and wagon for a claim of 160 acres in Sec. 28 ; he built hia shanty on the old Indian trail from Milwaukee to Pond du Lac, and has since made his home on that quarter-section ; his shanty has, however, long since been exchanged for a more comfortable residence. He was married in 1833, to Nancy M. Ferry, a native of Ohio ; they have one daughters-Mary E. (now Mrs, Hadley), whu has two sons - one, George W. Munger, by her first marriage, and Dudley A, Hadley by her second marriage ; Mrs. Hadley and her sons live with Mr. Williams.

L.OUISE C. WILLIAMS, Notary Public; was born in Manlius, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1837 ; her father. Deacon F. H. Westover, was a native of Massachusetts; h-er mother, Phebe Miller, was born in Oswego County, N. Y. ; Mrs. Williams came with her parents to Milwaukee in 1846, where she received her earlier education in private schools, and completed her studies at the Female College of that city in 1855. She was married January 14, 1862, to Mr. James Willliams, then First Lieutenant of Company A, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry; the regiment being encamped, at that time, at Baltimore, Miss Westover met Mr. Williams there, and the marriage ceremony was performed by Chaplain A. C. Bory, at the Major's tent; she remained there with her husband three weeks, when orders came for the regiment to march, when she returned to her father's, in Summit, Wis. ; Mr. Williams was killed at the battle of Baton Rouge, La., March 4, 1864 ; Mrs. Williams came with her parents to Oconomowoc in September, 1866, and, in 1871, became a student and book-keeper in the law-office of her brothers, George F. and J. Henry Westover, and, in 1874, she was appointed, by Gov. Taylor, Notary Public - the first lady Notary Public in Wisconsin, if not the first in the United States ; she remained in the office with her brothers till 1877, and, since that time, she has been collecting claims, loaning money and making transfers of real estate ; her father died at Oconomowoc in 1874; her mother, now 77 years old, lives with her.

A. W. WILLIS, telegraph operator; was born in the town of Canaan, Grafton Co., N. H., in 1850 ; his parents, Nathan and Edna Willis, were also natives of New Hampshire; his father was a carpenter and joiner by trade ; he began the study of telegraphy at Enfield, N. H., in 1869, and, in 1871, came to Wisconsin and engaged as operator for the C, M. & St. P. R. R. Co. at Prairie du Chien, Wis. ; he was stationed there two years, then at Dekorra one year, thence called to Milwaukee, whence, in 1875, he was sent to Oconomowoc, where he has since remained. He was married in 1877 to Miss A. May, daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Calkins) Streeter, a native of Gasport, Niagara Co., N. Y. ; their children are Edna L. and Annie; they attend the Congregational Church; Mr. Willis is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

THEODORE WORTHLVGTOBJ, deceased; was born in Northfield, Washington Co., Vt., in 1817, and is the son of Daniel and Polly (Fisk) Worthington ; he, with three brothers, Elijah, David and Daniel, came to Wisconsin in 1836; Elijah settled on a farm in Walworth County, and was also a local preacher there for a number of years before his death ; Theodore settled there with his parents, who came two years later ; David went to St. Louis, Mo., for several years; then removed to Chicago and made a purchase near Union Park, where he now resides ; David lived in Milwaukee for a few years, and became in later years a prominent M. E. minister; was stationed at Rock Island, 111., Dubuque, Iowa, and afterward at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he died ; Theodore made his home on the farm with his parents in the town of La Grange, Walworth Co., till 1844, when he came to Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., and bought a claim to 160 acres now within the city limits, where he followed farming for many years, but later dealt in real estate; he' died April 15, 1875. He was married in 1845 to Miss Orilla, daughter of Zaddoc and Polly (Muzzy) Williams, a native of Genesee, now Wayne Co., N. Y., but came to Oconomowoc in 1845. Their children are : James, deceased; -George, deceased ; Henry, deceased; Frank, who married Rosa Martin in June, 1876; they have had two daughters, Edith, deceased ; Ora Belle ; and Mrs. Worthington is a member of the M. E. Church.

CHARLES W. WOOD, farmer. Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc; was born at Attica, N. Y., in 1840 ; his father, James K. Wood, was born in Massachusetts, and removed to Attica, N. Y., when about 8 years old, and afterwards made his home in New York, till 1842 ; his mother was a native of York State. They emigrated to Wisconsin in 1842, and located in the town of White Water, W,alworth Co., where his father followed the blacksmith's trade till 1844, when they removed to their present home on Sec. 31, town of Oconomowoc, where he now owns 66J acres. Charles W. began the painter's trade when ten years old, with his father, who was also a painter, as well as blacksmith, and has followed it more or less of the time since, in connection with farming. He was married in 1872 to Miss Caroline, daughter of John and Younker, a native of Germany. They have one daughter, Caroline C.

WILililAM H. YOUWGr, manufacturer of wagons and buggies ; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1826, and when 7 years old, with his parents, Jacob and Euth Young, he removed to the town of Litchfield, Hillsdale Co., Mich., where he worked on a farm till nearly 21 years old ; he began his apprenticeship at the wagon and carriage maker's trade in Jonesville, Mich., and finished at Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1850 ; after which he continued his trade there a short time; he came to Oconomowoc in 1854, and established a manufacturing and repairing shop, where he has since carried on that business. He was married Nov. 1, 1849, to Miss Hannah M., a daughter of Luther and Hannah Hatch, a native of Pennsylvania, but her parents of Vermont ; they afterward removed to Ohio. Their children are : Alice, now the wife of D. Hatch, and lives in Oshkosh, Wis.; Lewis M., now of the firm of Kern & Young, of this city ; Eva I., deceased ; Charles M., at home. Mrs. Young is a member of the Congregational Church.

HENRY ZIIflllERMAlVJV, tailor; was born in Prussia, March 31, 1823, and at the age of 18 years began the tailor's trade, which he has since followed; he emigrated to America in 1856, and located at Oconomowoc, where he has since continued his trade ; he has been with Mr. Peters for the past nineteen years. He was married in 1851 to Miss Ernestina, daughter of John and Sophia Wolfgram, a native of Prussia, born May 4, 1827. Their children are Matilda, now the wife of A. Krause, and lives in Algona, Iowa ; Ernestina, who died at the age of 1 year and 10 months ; Albertina, the late wife of Adolph Genrich, now deceased ; Henry, deoeaased ; Martha, now Mrs. Joseph Dusse, and lives in Kansas ; Henry, and Laura, at home. Mr. Zimmerman and family are members of the Lutheran Church.

Town Of Summit

JOSEPH ADAMS, farmer, Sec. 17; P. 0. Summit Center; was born in Cambridgeshire, England, in 1840 ; emigrated with his parents, Kobert and Ann Adams, to Wisconsin in 1855 ; they located in Eacine County, where his father died in 1866, and where he spent his time at farming tOl 18 years old ; he then went to Milwaukee, where he was engaged in various kinds of business till 1870, when he came to the town of Summit, and located on the Putney farm, which he managed for three years ; then removed to the " Jimmy Stewart " farm, in the town of Ottawa, for a year ; whence he went to the town of Oconomowoc, and in 1875, bought his presei»t farm of 140 acres. He was married, in 1858, to Sarah E., daughter of James and Lucinda Ash, a native of Green Co., Wis.; their children are Silas E., Thomas W., Eobert L., Lucinda A. and Sarah R. Mr. Adams' mother now lives with him, and is in her 83d year.

REV. WIIiLIAHH ADAMS, D. D., graduate of Trinity College, Dublin; born in 1813; arrived in the United States in 1838, immediately after his graduation; he is a graduate of the General Theological Seminary of New York City ; author of " Elements of Christian Science," " Mercy to Babes," " A Treatise on Infant Baptism," and othpr works. He has been a resident of Wisconsin since 1841, and professor of Systematic Divinity at the Nashotah House since 1842.

JAMES M. BAIIiEY, farmer. Sec. 8; P. 0. Oconomowoc; was born in Addison Co., Vt., in 1808 ; removed with his parents, Belah and Betsey Bailey, to Ticonderoga, Sussex Co., N. Y., when young; here he made his home on a farm until the age of 30, Working a portion of the time at the wagonmaker's trade; he then went to Plattsburg, Clinton Co., where he followed the carpenter and joiner's trade till 1855 ; he then emigrated to Wisconsin and located at Summit Corners, and worked at his trade until 1857 ; he was then appointed Postmaster, which position he held for six months ; after which he continued at his trade till 1863, when he was re-appointed Postmaster for a time; after the expiration of this time as Postmaster, he resumed his vocation of carpenter and continued it until 1868, when he moved onto his farm of 80 acres, where he now resides. He was married in Worcester Co., Mass., Jan. 15, 1837, to Miss Alice Dwinnel, a native of Oxford; she died in Ticonderoga in 1839, having had two children, one dying April 7, the other the 18th, and she the last day of the same month ; his second marriage was Feb. 23, 1842, to Mary Hammond, a native of Ticonderoga; she died in the town of Summit Jan. 21, 1858 ; his third marriage occurred Sept. 22, 1858, to Julia Burt, of Montgomery Co., Vt. ; their children are Mary I., Wm. J., and Charles I. They are members of the M. E. Church.

EDWIN W. BARNARD, farmer, Sec. 15 ; P. 0. Summit ; he was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1838 ; when 4 or 5 years old, he removed with his parents to Albany, N. Y. ; whence, in 1845, then came to Waukesha Co., Wis., and located at Waterville, where his father was engaged in merchandising till his death, which occurred April 1, 1857. Edwin, the subject of this sketch, made his home with his mother, at Waterville, till 1862, when, on Dec. 31 of that year, he was married to Emma, a daughter of John D. and Sophia (Brown) McDonald, a native of the town of Summit ; they settled, soon after marriage, on Sec. 27, which was their home till 1866, and in the year following he bought his present farm of 160 acres, where he has since resided ; they have two daughters - Emma M. and Henrietta R.

HENRY BOWRON, farmer, Sec. 23 ; P. 0. Waterville ; was born at Champlain, Clinton Co., N. Y., Sept. 1, 1807 ; his parents, Joseph and Mary (Pox) Bowron, were also natives of Clinton Co. ; at the age of 21 years, he began clerking in a dry-goods store at Champlain, working for two different merchants two years each ; he next clerked for a lumber merchant at that place until the fall of 1836, when he landed in Milwaukee as a pioneer of Wisconsin ; he spent the winter clearing 15 acres of land at Kilbourn Hill, near Milwaukee ; and in the spring of 1837j with his goods in a bandana handkerchief, he started on foot for Waukesha, where he stopped with Cutler, by whose fire he baked his bread for the winter ; here he followed the carpenter and joiner's trade and other kinds of business till 1861, when he moved to his present farm of 148 acres, in the town of Summit ; he was Assessor of Waukesha for twenty years, and of Summit one year. He was married in Waukesha to Helen Campbell, a native of Vernon, Oneida Co., N. Y., who died Jan. 8, 1879, leaving three children - Henry C, Niles and Frank W. - at home.

THOMAS BRAKEFIELD, farmer. Sec. 15 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; son of Thomas and Mary Brakefield ; was born in County Kent, England, in 1817 ; in 1830, he emigrated to this country with his parents and settled at Schenectady, N. Y., where they followed farming fgr awhile, and afterward removed to Utica, N. Y., where his father died ; in 1850, he, with his mother, came to Wisconsin and located at Delavan, Walworth Co., where she died in 1854 ; in 1856, he removed to his present farm, of 1 60 acres, in the town of Summit. Mr. B. has been a member of the Town Board for six years. He was married in Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1840, to Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and Abbie (Sheldon) Ward, a native of Herkimer Co., N. Y. ; their children are Maria, now the wife of Ezra Feller, and lives at Plainview, Minn. ; Edward, now at Rising City, Butler Co., Neb. ; Louisa, at home.

ROBERT BRIGHT, farmer, Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in Herefordshire, England, in 1816 ; he is the son of William and Catharine Bright, by whom he was brought to America when 2 years old, settling in Madison Co., N. Y. ; he subsequently lived in Onondaga, Jefferson, Oswego and St. Lawrence Counties, till the age of 20, with his parents ; he followed clerking in hotels in Syracuse, Oswego and other places until 1841, when he was married to Miss Louisa, daughter of Thomas and Netty Allard, a native of Sussex Co., N. Y. ; in 1843, they came to Milwaukee", Wis., where he engaged in hotel keeping for a time ; he afterward followed lumbering and milling in that place for twenty-seven years; in 1875, he came to the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., and settled on 160 acres, where he now lives; which had been in his possession since 1852; he had three children - Georgiana, died September, 1869, aged 26 years, the wife of George H.Williams, Milwaukee; Louisa, wife of Albert Ward, of New York City, deceased; Adin, a son, now in Milwaukee.

OSGOOD P. CHUBB, farmer. Sec. 10; P. 0. Oconomowoc; is a native of Windsor Co., Vt., born in February, 1827. At the age of 10 years, he emigrated with his parents, Newman and Cynthia ( Fair) Chubb, to Wisconsin, and located, in December, 1837, on Sec. 36, in the town of Waukesha ; six years later, his father sold his farm in Waukesha and removed with his family to the town of Ottawa, where he and his wife afterward died. Osgood P., our present subject, made his home with his father, in the town of Ottawa, till 1851, when he removed to the town of Lomira, Dodge Co., and followed farming there till 1854 ; he then went to California, where he engaged in mining for two and a half years, after which, he returned to his family, in the town of Lomira, and continued farming there till October, 18£fe, when he bought his present farm of 1581 acres, on Sec. 10, town of Summit, Waukesha Co. He was married, in February. 1851, to Lucy, daughter of George M. and Lorena Cobb, a native of Vermont ; she came with her parents to Wisconsin in 1836, and located at Oak Creek, Milwaukee Co. Mr. and Mrs. Chubb have had five children - -Theodore, deceased ; Clarence, now in Clark Co., Wis. ; Ernest, deceased, and Lilla and Ernest, at home.

REV. A. S. COLiE, D. D., President of the Nashotah House, and Professor of Pastoral Theology ; born in Windham Co., Conn., in 1818 ; his earlier education was in the Plainfield Academy, under the tutorship of John R. Witter, LL. D., a famous teacher of his time ; in 1835, he entered Brown Conservatory, of Providence, R. I., and graduated from that institution in 1838, under the care of the Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D. ; he graduated from the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City, in 1841, in the fall of the same year he became Rector of St. James' Church, Woonsocket, R. I., and, in 1845, Rector of St. Luke's, Kalamazoo, Mich. In December, 1849, he became Rector of St. Luke's, Racine, Wis.; in May, 1850, was elected President of Nashotah House, and Sept. 1 following, he entered upon the duties of that office ; in 1851, he was made Professor of Pastoral Theology, in addition to his work as President.

GEORGE COMSTOCK, farmer. Sees. 18 and 19; P. 0., Oconomowoc; was born in the town of Woodstock, Windom Co., Conn., in 1812 ; his father, John Comstock, was a native of Rhode Island, and came to Connecticut, where he died, when his son George was about six years old ; his mother, Ruth Sayles, was also a native of Rhode Island, and came, after her marriage, to Connecticut; when George reached his ninth year, he was bound out to a farmer, and made his home with him till he was 15 years old ; then was bound out to another, with whom he remained till 22 ; the following year he spent in Massachusetts, after which he returned to Connecticut, whence, in October, 1825, he went to Buffalo, N. Y., but soon returned again to Connecticut, where, in the spring of 1826, he was married to Eliza, daughter of Daniel Paine, a native of Windham Co ; they removed, immediately after marriage, to Oneida Co., N. Y., where he followed farming till 1846, and June 10, of that year, settled in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., Wis., among its early settlers, locating at that time on his present farm, on Sees. 18 and 19, where he now owns 160 acres. Mr. Comstock has been a member of the Town Board for a number of years. His wife died July 26, 1860, leaving eight children - Mary, now the wife of W. D. Bradford, lives in Minnesota; Emily, now Mrs. L. M. B. Smith, lives in Algona, Iowa; Margaret, now the wife of Samuel Smith, lives in Minnesota ; John D., deceased ; James, now in Algona, Iowa ; Nancy, in Milwaukee ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Don C. Westover, lives in Kansas, and George E., in Milwaukee ; his second marriage was May 27, 1869. to Esther A., daughter of Reuben Smith.

JAIIES M. CRCMMEY, Sec. 35; P. 0. Waterville; was born in New York City in 1824; his father, an extensive butcher of that city, kept his son, James M., employed in buying stock for the market. In 1840, the subject of this sketch emigrated to Wisconsin, and located at Milwaukee, where he was employed as ticket agent for a line from Buffalo, via Milwaukee, to Chicago, holding that position for about ten years ; he next engaged in the butcher business, but was subsequently employed as ticket agent for the railroads then centering in Milwaukee ; the latter part of 1864, he went to Mississippi, and, for two years, was proprietor of a large cotton plantation, near Natchez ; returning to Wisconsin, at the end of this time, he settled, with his family, on a farm of 320 acres in the town of Summit, which he had purchased in 1850 ; here he spent most of his time in farming till 1876, and since that time has been engaged in mining, at Lake City, Colo. He was married in 1850, to Amelia Sexton, of Darien N. Y., who came with her parents to Wisconsin when she was 10 years old ; their children are George P., James M. and Bernard A., now residing at home.

ISAAC DENTON, farmer. Sec. 10 ; P. 0., Oconomowoc ;. was born in Erie Co., Ohio, in 1833 ; he emigrated, with his parents, Jonas M. and Maria (Furman) Denton, to Wisconsin in 1850, spending the winter in Elkhorn, Walworth Co. ; in the spring of 1851, they settled on a farm in the town of Concord, Jefferson Co., Wis.; he made that his home most of the time till 1862, when, in the fall of that year, he enlisted in Co. E, 28th Wis. V. t. , and was with his regiment in the army of the West, till mustered out at Brownsville, Texas, in September, 1865 ; he then returned to his father's home, in Concord, and spent five years, at which time he purchased the homestead, his .father then removing to Jefferson. In 1877, he disposed of the above farm and bought his present property, in Sec. 10, in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co. He was married in 1867, to Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Clarissa Neff, of Waterville, Wis. ; their children are Charles and Gertrude.

lIIIiES N. DODGE, farmer. Sec. 11 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; is a native of Delaware Co., N. Y. ; bofn in 1813; his father, William Dodge, in Hudson ; his mother, Abigail Burgin, was of the old New England stock, born in Connecticut. At the age of 19, Miles N. left his father's home, in Delaware, and went to Genesee Co., where he followed farming till 1846 ; April 30 of that year, he arrived in he town of Summit, Waukesha Co., as an emigrant to Wisconsin ; he with his brother then bought a claim of 220 acres on Sees. 2 and 11 of that town, which they afterward divided, he taking 80 acres on Sec. 11 and 40 acres on Sec. 2, which has since been his home. Mr. Dodge has been a member of the Town Board for three terms. He was married in Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1840, to Emily K., daughter of Elisha and Phila (Billings) Holdridge, a native of Herkimer Co., N. Y. ; their children are Marshall, now at Canby, Minn.; Eugene H., now in La-qui-parle Co., Minn.; Helen P., at home, and George A., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. I 'odge are connected with the Congregational Church.

Toavn Of Summit

KEV. ,IIOIl]V H. EG-AR, D. D., professor of Ecclesiastical History, Nashotah House, was born in Cambridgeshire, Eng., in 1832 ; came with his parents to America in 1846, and to Milwaukee in the spring of 1847 ; he was there employed in the Sentinel and Wisconsin offices till 1852, when he entered the Nashotah H onse as a student of theology, and graduated from the same in 1 856 ; he was subsequently rector of the church at Prairie du Chien, Waukesha and Beloit, Wis., (jalena. 111., Leavenworth, Kan., and St. Peter's, Pittsburg ; while rector of St. I'eter's he published a book entitled "The Three Graces of the Holy Trinity," and has also written several small pamphlets, among them, " The Doctrine of the Trinity Defended ;" in January, 1872, he returned to Nashotah to accept the professorship of ecclesiastical history, in which position he has since been retained.

lIABSHALIi FAIRS ERVICE, deceased; born in Boston; removed early in life to the State of New York, and settled near Rome, in Oneida Co., where he followed farming till 1837 ; he then emigrated to Wisconsin, and settled in the town of Summit, near the lower Nehmabin Lake, where he devoted his time to agricultural pursuits till the time of his death ; he was married to Mariba Fisk, a native of Massachusetts, and the fruits of this marriage were five daughters, namely : Frances, now Mrs. Leavett, and Harriet E., now Mrs. Parks, both of the town of Summit ; Agnes, now Mrs. Orson Reed, formerly of the same town ; Caroline, now Mrs. Albert Allen, of Delafield ; and Mary, now Mrs. Richard Lush, formerly of Summit.

CHARIiES H. ELINTON, farmer. Sees. 4 and 5 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in Lincolnshire, Eng., in 1830, and came to Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1854, locating in the town of Summit ; he began working for farmers in this locality soon after his arrival, and made this town his home till 1863, when he removed to Colorado, and there followed farming till 1876, when he returned to Summit. He was married in 1860 to Harriet E., daughter of Richard and Jane Hardelj, a native of Lincolnshire, Eng., but came with her parents to Summit in 1837.

MICHAEL OEL^iiHER, farmer. Sees. 5 and 6 ; P. 0. Oconomowoc ; was born in County Meath, Ireland, in 1820. When 21 years of age, he emigrated to America, and stopped in Sussex Co., N. J., where he worked in an iron blast-furnace for N. Brooks for eleven years; in the spring of 1851, he moved to the' town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., Wis., having been out there the year before and bought a farm of 40 acres ; he made his home there till 1 873, when he sold his farm, which he had increased to 120 acres, and removed to the city of Oconomowoc ; three years later he purchased his present farm of 132 acres, situated on Sees. 5 and 6, in the town of Summit. He was married in 1846, to Mary Greene, the ceremony being performed on board the vessel during their voyage to America ; they adopted a daughter, Catharine, who is now the wife of Henry Dougherty, who lives at Dubuque, Iowa.

REV. JOHIV F. GIBBS, is a native of Otsego Co., N. Y. ; his father, Daniel Gibbs, was born in the town of Litchfield, Conn., ahDut 1767, and at the age of 16 (his family being broken up during the Revolutionary war) he went into Vermont; some years after, with others, he went thence to the Genesee country in New York, where he, with them, cleared up a farm near what was known as Waskey Flats, for one Seth Price, who afterward offered him 80 acres of land where the city of Rochester now stands, as payment for his services, but which he declined to accept ; he then went into Herkimer Co., N. Y., where he afterward married Magdalena Lighthall, a lady of German descent; they had a family often children, three of whom died when young; John F., the youngest, was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., May 10, 1820 ; he spent the first years of his life in Otsego, Genesee, and St. Lawrence Cos., and then located in the village of Theresa, Jefferson Co. ; hete he engaged in farming for a time; also owned and run a boat on the Erie canal from Bufialo to Albany, which he continued to do until 1848, when he engaged in merchandising there till 1852; closing out his business, he then removed to Wisconsin, and located on a farm in the town of Le Roy, Dodge Co., which was afterward his home till 1874, when he removed to his present farm on Sec. 5, town of Summit, part of which lies within the city limits of Oconomowoc. He united with the M. E Church in 1860; began '\.t once the study and work of the ministry as an exhorter at Iron Ridge, Dodge Co.; was licensed ia April, 1861, and continued the work, under the regular pastor, as local preacher; was ordained Deacon, October 1868; was ordained Elder at Whitewater, Wis., in October, 1873; continued his work in Dodge County till 1874, when he reiSoved to Oconomowoc; he has since continued the work of holding services on alternate Sundays at Cobb Schoolhouse, Summit, Waukesha Co., Concord, Jefferson Co., and occasionally holding service, as supply, in Oconomowoc, having traveled over 18,000 miles, preaching a free gospel. He was married in Jefferson County, N. Y., to Mary Hawkins, a native of that county, who died in Dodge Co., Wis., Jan. 5, 1866, leaving four children - William F., at Hustisford, Dodge Co.; Mary A., now the wife of Alanson Bacon, and lives at Middleburgh, Neb.; Ellen M., now Mrs. Geo. W. Cowls, lives in Richardson Co., Neb.; Chloe E., now the wife of Allen A. Billings, now of Oconomowoc. The second marriage was on July 5, 1866, to Adelia M. Grossman, a native of JeflFerson, N. Y. , their children are George L., Jennie I. and John W., who are now at home.

A. GIFFORD GURIVEY, farmer. See. 14: P. 0. Delafield; was born in Duchess Co., N. Y., in 1809; his father, DaVid Gurney, was also a native of that county, and followed farming for a livelihood. Our subject, A. G., spent his time at the same vocation till 1836, when he began business for himself, and followed teaching and farming till 1 846 ; he then emigrated to Wisconsin and located on his present farm, where he now owns 80 acres. He was married in January, 1846, to Susan, a daughter of Judge Henry Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; they have had two children - Edwin L., deceased, and Jennie L , at home

ABRAII G. HARDELIi, farmer and stock -raiser ; Sees 33 and 34; P. O. Golden Lake; was born in Yorkshire, Eng., in 1826; his parents, Richard and Jane Hardell, were natives of Lincolnshire, Eng., and when their son, Abram G., was about 2 years old, they sailed for America; in the following year they removed to Utica, N. Y., and later still to Clinton of the same State; in 1836 they arrived at Milwaukee, and in 1,837 settled in rhe town of Summit. Our subject made his home with his parents till his marriage, which occurred July 3, 1854, to Mary, a daughter of Robert and Mary "Wilkinson, of the town of Mukwonago, Waukesha Co.; he has ever since continued to reside on the homestead, and he now owns a farm of about 500 acres in the same town Mr. H devotes much of his time to breeding short-horn cattle and Spanish Merino sheep. He has been member and Chairman of the Town Board, and has held other and minor offices in his town

W. 3. HARDELiIi, farmer. Sees. 26 and 27; P. 0. Summit; was born in Lincolnshire, Eng., and emigrated to America with his parents, Richard and Jane Hardell, when he wan but 4 or 5 years old ; landing in New York, they stopped there nearly a year, where his father followed the business of a contractor and builder; later they removed to Clinton, N Y., whence, in 1836, they came to Wisconsin and landed in Milwaukee ; here they remained till May, 1 837, when the subject of this sketch, with a team, came by the way of Waukesha, then Prairieville, to the town of Summit, being the first wagon that came from Waukesha to Summit ; his father having preceded him and made a claim to a section of land in sections numbered 28, 33 and 34, he joined hioi at the above-mentioned place, where they at ooce began to make preparation for the family, which arrived some weeks after ; during the first year they realized tnany of the hardships and privations of pioneer life, but, with that perseverance which characterizes the first settlers of this country, they managed to provide themselves with food enough till the soil could supply them with a crop. After making his home in this town for 11 years, Mr. H. removed, in 1848, to LaSalle Co., 111., where he contiuued farming most of the time till 1863, excepting that in each of the years 1849 and 1853 he made a trip to California; in the first of these he remained five months, and the second, three years; id 1863 he returned' to the town of Summit and settled on his present farm of 160 acres He was married in 1848 to Permelia Tyler, a native of Madison County, and an emigrant to Wisconsin in 1847; they have four children - George B., who is now in O'Brien County, Iowa ; Frank, in Nebraska ; Richard H., at home ; Addie, now the wife of F. Alger, lives in Oconomowoc.

JOHX CHRISTIAlf FREDERICK HARTMANIV, farmer. Sec 6; P O. Ocono mowoo ; was born in Prussia in 1836, and came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1844; they settled on a farm of 160 acres, in the town of Ixonia, Jefferson Co., which his father entered from the Government, and afterward bought more, till he had quite an extensive farm at the time of his death, which occurred in 1874. John C. F. made his home in Ixonia a year after the death of his father; then removed to the city of Oconomowoc, where he engaged in selling farm machinery for two years ; he removed to his present farm of 103 acres in 1878; in May, 1879, he formed a, copartnership in the Oconomowoc foundry and machine shop, under the firm of Hartmann, Hubner & Co., of which firm he is now a member. He was married, Sept. 8, 1864, to Miss Louisa, daughter of William and Sophia Waltmann, a native of the town of Lebanon, Dodge Co., Wis., who died Aug. 7, 1874, leaving six children, as follows: William F. L., Louis A., Alexander E., Agnes A., Louisa A., A. Edward. His second marriage was, Dec. 13, 1874, to Miss Mary Waltmann, a sister to his first wife, by whom he has had three children - Fredereck B., Celia M., John F., deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann are members of the Lutheran Church.

B. HILiDRETH, farmer. Sees. 17 and 20; P. 0. Summit; was born in New Hampshire in 1811, and at the age of 6 or 7 years, he removed with his parents, Jesse and Betsey (Cobb) Hildreth, to Oneida Co., N. Y., where he followed farming until 1837. He was married there, in 1835, to Priscilla Preston, with whom and his father's family, in the fall of 1837, he emigrated to Wisconsin and settled in the town of Summit, Waukesha Co., his father and brother having preceded them some months and made claims on Sees. 17 and 20 of this town; the house for the family was not yet completed when they arrived, but they found shelter in a shanty on Mr. Baxter's farm till December, when they removed to their new home ; he and his father found work at chopping logs near Waukesha during the winter months, by which they provided their families with bread, and in the spring of 1838, he sowed the first wheat in this town ; his father died on the homestead in 1852, his mother died in Adams Co., Wis., in 1842. B. C, soon after their permanent settlement, put up a log house on the homestead, which sufficed for a home till 1857, when his present edifice was erected; his wife died June 12, 1841, leaving three children, having had four - Jane, the late wife of Edward Henry, now deceased, Hamilton, who died Nov. 9, 1 837 (the first death in the town), Helen, now the wife of William Potter, and lives in Bates Co., Mo.; his second marriage was June 9, 1842, to Prisoilla Labar, a native of Tompkins Co., N. Y. ; they have two sons - Charles 0., now io Saline Co., Neb.; Henry H., who married Jeannette Kimball and has five children - Edna M., Ida M., Nellie, Bertram C. and Maria M. Mr. Hildreth has been a member of the Town Board three or four terms. Assessor four years, Town Treasurer two years.